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What service do you use to send emails from your self hosted apps? I haven't been having luck getting approved. (alien.top)
submitted 1 year ago by RaiseRuntimeError@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum
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How are people sending emails from their self hosted apps? I Thought MailSender would be good but i guess not. Im about to try SendPulse now. Why isnt there a service that doesnt care what you do with your emails as long as you only sending max a few emails a day?

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[–] Tai9ch@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Delegating mail to an external service means you're not self hosting it.

Sending email is something you can just do. There's no need for an external service unless:

  • You're trying to deliver email to external users.
  • You really need your email to get through without ending up in people's spam folder.
[–] reddit_names@alien.top 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're trying to deliver email to external users.

You really need your email to get through without ending up in people's spam folder.

So literally everyone actually using email.

[–] Tai9ch@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

No.

Having a couple emails end up in spam boxes isn't that big a deal for many self-hosted app scenarios.

For example, if you have a limited set of users, the setup process can involve getting an email and marking it not spam.